COURSE OUTLINE AND READINGS
NB: The professor reserves the right to adjust, eliminate, or substitute readings on this list to accommodate the intellectual needs of the class. Students will ALWAYS be advised of changes in class and in writing no later than 48 hours in advance.
PART ONE DEVELOPING THE “RACIAL TOOLKIT”
4 September Introduction to the Course
NO READING
9 September Defining and Talking about Race and Racism
*Anderson, Elijah. 2015. “The White Space.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 1(1): 10 – 21.
*DiAngelo, Beverly. 2018. “The Challenges of Talking to White People about Racism” (pp. 7 – 14) and “Racism and White Supremacy” (pp. 15 – 38) in White Fragility: Why is it So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism?
*Tatum, Beverly Daniel. 2017. “Defining Racism” (pp. 83 – 98) in Why are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race.
11 September Thinking about Race and Racial Identity
*Anderson, Elijah. 2012. “The Iconic Ghetto.” The ANNALS of Political and Social Science. 642: 8 – 24.
*Mills, C. Wright. [1959] 2000. “The Promise” (pp. 3 – 13) in The Sociological Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
*Tatum, Beverly Daniel. 2017. “The Complexity of Identity” (pp. 99 – 110) in Why are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race.
PART TWO THE INVENTION OF RACE(ISM)
16 September Historical Perspectives on Race and Racism
*Omi, Michael and Howard Winant. 1994. “Racial Formation,” (pp. 53 – 69) in Racial Formation in the United States. New York: Routledge.
*Sussman, Robert. 2014. “Early Racism in Western Europe” (pp. 11 – 42) in The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Cambridge: Harvard.
18 September Race as Biological Myth
*Roberts, Dorothy. 2011. “Separating Racial Science from Racism” (pp. 26 – 54) (skim), “The Allure of Race in Biomedical Research” (pp. 104 – 121) and “Embodying Race” (pp. 123 – 146) in Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Recreate Race in the Twenty-First Century. New York: The New Press.
20 September Diagnostic Essay Submitted via One Drive by 5 pm
PART THREE RACISM IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY
23 September Racism without Racists
*Hagerman, Margaret A. 2018. “Race Doesn’t Really Matter Anymore” (pp. 9 – 23), “We’re Not a Racial School” (pp. 64 – 96), and “It was Racism: White Kids on Race” (pp. 161 – 196) in White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in America.
25 September White Privilege(?)
*Sherman, Jennifer. 2009. “The Place I Found: An Introduction to Golden Valley” (pp. 25 – 54) and “Workers and Welfare: Poverty, Coping Strategies, and Substance Abuse (pp. 55 – 100) in Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t: Poverty, Morality, and Family in Rural America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
30 September White Fragility
DiAngelo, Robin. 2018. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Chs. 8 – 12.
COURSE EXPERTS: JADA SCOTLAND, SOPHIA LISLE
2 October Research Workshop/ Racialization in the Twenty-First Century
Beydoun, Khaled A. American Islamophobia, Chs. 1 – 2, 5-6
4 October Midterm 1 due via One Drive by 5 pm.
7 October Visit to Special Collections (Bowdoin Library)
Meet in Nixon Lounge (3rdFloor, Library)
9 October Racializing “Illegality”
Flores-Gonzalez, Nilda. 2017. Citizens But Not Americans, Chs. 2 – 5. New York: NYU Press.
PART FOUR RACISM AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
14 October FALL BREAK – NO CLASS
16 October Racism and Education
Zabala, Pamela. 2017. “Cooperate with Others for Common Ends? Students as Gatekeepers of Culture and Tradition on College Campus.” Honors Project: Bowdoin College.
COURSE EXPERTS: SALINA CHIN, KATIE REID
18 October Final Project Prospectus Due Submitted through One Drive by 5 pm
21 October The Inheritance of the Ghetto
* Sharkey, Patrick. 2013. “The Inheritance of the Ghetto” (pp. 24 – 46), “Neighborhoods and the Transmission of Racial Inequality” (pp. 91 – 116) and “The Cross-Generational Legacy of Urban Disadvantage” (pp. 117 – 135) in Stuck in Place: Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress Toward Racial Equality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
COURSE EXPERTS: SAUL CUEVAS-LANDEROS, AYANA OPONG-NYANTEKYI
23 October Economic Opportunity and Racism
Lung-Amam, Willow S. 2017. “The New Gold Mountain” (pp. 19 – 52) and “A Quality Education for Whom” (pp. 53 – 97) in Trespassers? Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia. Berkeley: University of California Press.
COURSE EXPERTS: SAUL CUEVAS-LANDEROS, JADA SCOTLAND
28 October Thinking About Data Workshop – Beth Hoppe
30 October Racializing Policing
Haldipur, Jan. 2018. No Place on the Corner.
COURSE EXPERTS: DANIEL BARDSLEY, AFTON KIRKPATRICK
4 November Racism and the Justice System
Van Cleve, Nicole Gonzalez. Crook County, Introduction, Chs. 1 – 2.
COURSE EXPERTS: KADERRIUS CAMPBELL, AYANA OPONG-NYANTEKYI
6 November Racializing a Defense
Van Cleve, Nicole Gonzalez. Crook County, Chs. 3 – 5.
COURSE EXPERTS: ABBY GORDY, KENNEDI CARTER
8 November Annotated Bibliography Submitted via One Drive by 5 pm
PART FIVE RACISM IN CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY
11 November #MOVIEINDUSTRYSOWHITE
Erigha, Maryann. 2019. “Representation and Racial Hierarchy,” (pp. 23 – 52), “Labeling Black Unbankable” (pp. 52 – 81), and “Manufacturing Racial Stigma” (pp. 141 – 161) in The Hollywood Jim Crow: The Racial Politics of the Movie Industry. New York: New York University Press.
COURSE EXPERTS: SALINA CHIN, ALEXIS MULLEN
13 November The Politics of Cultural Appropriation
Rodriguez, Jason. 2006. “Colorblind Ideology and the Cultural Appropriation of Hip-Hop” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 35(6): 645 – 688.
Cultural Appropriation Packet
COURSE EXPERT: KENNEDI CARTER, SOPHIA LISLE
18 November Racism and Technology, Part One
Noble, Safiya, Umoja. 2018. Algorithms of Oppression, Chs. 1 – 3.
COURSE EXPERTS: KATIE REID, KIRSTIN YIP
20 November Racism and Technology, Part Two
Noble, Safiya, Umoja. 2018. Algorithms of Oppression, Chs. 4 – 6
COURSE EXPERTS: CJ BRITO-TRINIDAD, CONNOR MARRS
22 November Racism at Bowdoin Essay Draft Due
25 November Sexual Racism
Buggs, Shantel Gabrieal. 2017. “Dating in the Time of #BlackLivesMatter: Exploring Mixed-Race Women’s Discourses on Race and Racism.”
Han, Chong-suk and Kyung-Hee Choi. 2018. “Very Few People Say ‘No Whites”: Gay Men of Color and the Racial Politics of Desire.” Sociological Spectrum 38(3): 145 – 161.
Spell, Sarah. 2017. “Not Just Black and White: How Race/Ethnicity and Gender Intersect in Hookup Culture.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 3(2): 172 – 187.
COURSE EXPERTS: ALEXIS MULLEN, CRYSTAL CHONG
27 November THANKSGIVING BREAK – NO CLASS
PART SIX FIGHTING BACK
2 December Racializing Politics
*Lopez, Ian Haney. 2014. “Getting Away With Racism” (pp. 127- 146), “What’s the Matter with White Voters? Commonsense Racism” (pp. 169 – 190), and “Conclusion — To End Dog Whistle Politics” (pp. 211 – 232) in Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism & Wrecked the Middle Class. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
COURSE EXPERTS: KIRSTIN YIP, ABBY GORDY
4 December White Frustration and White Rage
Stern, Alexandra Minna. 2019. Red Pills for the Masses (pp. 15-32), Cat Ladies, Wolves, and Lobsters: A Menagerie of Biological Essentialism (pp. 71-92), Living the Tradlife (pp. 93-110), and Normalizing Nationalism (pp. 111 – 127) in Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate. Boston: Beacon Press.
COURSE EXPERTS: CRYSTAL CHONG, KADERRIUS CAMPBELL
28 November Racism at Bowdoin Final Essay Draft Due
9 December Anti-Racism and The Hip-Hop Generation
Clay, Andreana. The Hip Hop Generation Fights Back, Chs. 1 (skim), 2 – 3, 6
COURSE EXPERTS: CJ BRITO-TRINIDAD, DANIEL BARDSLEY
11 December Reimagining Racial Oppression
Clay, Andreana. The Hip-Hop Generation Fights Back, Chs. 4 – 5, 7
COURSE EXPERTS: CONNOR MARRS, AFTON KIRKPATRICK
RESEARCH PAPER TO BE SUBMITTED VIA ONE DRIVE BY 4:30 PM ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17.